Maybe it is true for all states, but The Atlantic has just published an in-depth look at treatment of mentally ill inmates in South Carolina.  It’s sickening.  Some day, our grandchildren will look back at our neglect just as we look back at Victorians who hid the mentally ill in the attic.  All of us should speak to all of our legislators and state officials:  it’s time to end barbaric treatment of the weakest and sickest, those without power in jails and prisons.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/when-good-people-do-nothing-the-appalling-story-of-south-carolinas-prisons/282938/